As cases of measles soar globally, the Philippines in facing a major outbreak. Since a controversy over a dengue fever vaccine, confidence has fallen in the country’s immunisation programmes. Arlyn B. Calos told the BBC that misinformation on television and social media led her to ignore government advice to have her children vaccinated against measles, […]
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The Beatles are shown the exit door in Yesetrday Imagine there’s no Beatles. It’s easy if you try. Easier still if the award-winning writer/director team of Richard Curtis and Danny Boyle do the bulk of the hypothesising for you, as they have in their new film, Yesterday. The movie,
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Vegan alternatives to meat are growing in popularity Should words like “sausage” and “burger” only be used to describe foods that contain meat? Under an EU proposal put forward in April, the answer is yes – although experts are due to raise their objections to the plan at a
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The ranks have swelled recently at two unions representing writers and editors: the News Guild, which represents the staff at The New York Times, among other media organizations, and the Writers Guild of America East, perhaps best known for its work with television and film writers. Organizers at the two unions estimated that the digital
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Football great Brett Favre said he is not coming out of retirement at the age of 49, despite an Instagram post suggesting that on Tuesday. The Hall of Fame quarterback’s Instagram account featured a photo of Favre from Super Bowl XXXI with this eye-opening caption: “A true champion sticks to his or her calling. I will
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Mayor Pete Buttigieg remained in South Bend, Ind., on Tuesday to confront a local crisis involving the fatal shooting of a black resident by a white police officer, skipping scheduled campaign appearances in Hollywood. The shooting of the 54-year-old robbery suspect under conditions that remain murky has presented Mr. Buttigieg, a
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U.S. home construction slipped a bit in May as a sharp drop in single-family construction was only partially offset by a rise in apartment building. The Commerce Department said Tuesday that construction was started at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.27 million homes and apartments, a decline of 0.9% from April when construction starts
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Image copyright Nina Barbour Image caption Nina Barbour said conditions at the start of the event had been like a “monsoon” “We had monsoon conditions at the start”, says Nina Barbour. For many British businesses, this long spell of wet weather has been challenging and costly. Nina Barbour is director of Bolesworth Estate, where one
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Google is pouring $1 billion into easing the high-priced housing headaches that it and its Silicon Valley peers helped give the San Francisco Bay Area. The pledge announced Tuesday by Google CEO Sundar Pichai consists of a $250 million investment fund and $750 million of company-owned land. It will be used to build at least
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Two University of Minnesota wrestlers who were arrested on suspicion of criminal sexual conduct were released from jail without charges Tuesday but prosecutors said the investigation remained active. The Hennepin County attorney’s office said in a statement that it had reviewed the allegations against Gable Steveson and Dylan Martinez, but that “no charges can be
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